Glass hydriske (perfume bottle)

late 4th–3rd century BCE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 158

Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow.
Horizontal rim-disk, with rounded edge; cylindrical neck, with slight upward taper; broad almost horizontal rounded shoulder; ovoid body; applied circular pad-base, with uneven bottom; on sides of upper body, two small vertical loop handles; strap handle applied at junction of shoulder and body in a pad and pressed on to underside of rim-disk and top of neck.
Unmarvered yellow and white trails attached on shoulder and wound round; both trails tooled in a close-set zigzag pattern with deep vertical ribs over top half of body, then white trail continuing down in a spiral around lower body.
Complete, except for most of one loop handle and strap handle; dulling and pitting, with patches of brownish weathering and faint iridescence.

Artwork Details

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Title: Glass hydriske (perfume bottle)
Period: Hellenistic
Date: late 4th–3rd century BCE
Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
Dimensions: H.: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.194.767
Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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